Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-15
THE CROPS of THE COUNTRY.
THE STATE CROPS,

The State Department of Agriculture
has received tWo-hundred and forty-six
special reports from its township CORES
pondents regarding the crops, of an aver
age date of June /, of which the following
CoTToN.-The crop is from two to three
weeks earlier, and stands better than last
wear. The crop is clean and growing rap
idly, and is snow verging to limband square,
and looks vigorous and healthy. 1t has
not been decreased in acreage-reported
at 96 per cent. The condition is reported
in upper Carolina at 102 per cent; mid
die Carolina, 1902; and in lower Carolina,
100. An average for the State OF l0l per
cent. This is above. the condition at the
same period in 1882, 1883, and in 1884,
when it was reported at IS, and in 1856 at
SO per cent, showing that the crop is in a
better condition than for a period OF years.
CoRN.-The growth of corn was m
what retarded by the dry weather in April
and early May, but recent rains in nearly
every section of the State has improved its
condition very much. On sandy and bot
tom lands is good. Owing to the favora-
ple spring and absence from floods the
bottom lands have been better prepared
and planted earlier than usual. Cores
pondents estimate the crop on bottoms at
% per cent, and on uplands at ~ per cent
The condition of the crop in upper Caro-
lima on bottoms SO, on uplands at 100; in
middle Carolina on bottoms 80, on uplands
SO; in lower Carolina 81 OF bottoms, on up
lands SO making an average for the State,
on both bottoms and uplands, "a per cent,
against SO per cent. compared to the crop
of last year.
WHEAT AND OATs.-Wheat and fall
sown oats were injured by freezes, the
former a little and the latter very much !;
but where the oats were too thin for a
stand were resown in early Spring. The
correspondents report that the crop will
Weld much better than expected, the re-
cent rains having very much improved
the condition of the crop. Harvesting has
commenced in some localities. The con-
dition of both crops is reported at 81 per
cent. for wheat and 50 per cent. for oats,
against Is per cent. for each last year.
FERTILIzERs.-The amount of CONNER
cial fertilizers sold i'm the State for the
past season, as is shown by the books of
the Department, is less than the season of
1885 and '86.
GENERAL SUMMARY.-Last year it was
estimated that 19 per cent. less farm sup
plies was purchased than in 1883, and TINS
year 1G per cent. more than last, still max
ing a decrease of 8 per cent. less than in
1885. This increase is due to freshets,
which destroyed the entire corn crop on
the bottoms, forcing farmers to buy at the
beginning of the season. But our farmers
are cheerful, hopeful and buoyant, and do
not complain. And when it is recollected
that less fertilizers have been purchased,
labor cheaper and the crop cultivated at
less cost up to this time than any crop for
years, they have some reason for rejoicing.
Labor in nearly every locality has been
more plentiful. Owing to the failure OF
the crop last year, taught them to prepare
for the worst, and, as one correspondent
puts it "'They hold their W wonderful
ly !; most of them started with nothing and
still have it."
NATIONAL CROP REPORT.
The National Agricultural Bureau pub
lished on Saturday returns to that date.
The reports indicate q reduction of nearly
two points in the area of Winter wheat.
Changes in acreage of States are very
slight, except in Kansas, where a reduc-
ton of % per cent. is reported. caused by
bad harvests and low prices. The Spring
wheat area has been enlarged 6 per cent.
from an increase of immigration and farm
making West of the Mississippi in districts
traversed by the Northern Pacific Rail-
road. Most of the increase is in Dakota,
which reports an increment of "a per cent.
The total area of wheat is about 81 ,O00, 900
acres, a fraction more than that of the
previous crop. In the condition of Winter
wheat, there is no marked change, the av-
erage being $40, a reduction of nine-tenths
of one per cent. In 1886 the June average
was 92.7.
The area of Winter rye has been dimin-
ished over 6 per cent, mainly by a large
reduction in Kansas. The condition is bet
ter than that of wheat, as usual averaging
$50. An apparent enlargement of barley
acreage of 8 per cent. is indicated. The
increase is in Dakota. California, Oregon
and the territories. The condition aver
ages 9S, being slightly above that of wheat.
There is a continuance of the extension
of oats culture. The increase is / per cent.
This crop has taken part of the area for
merly in wheat in Kansas, an advance OF
80 per cent. over the acreage of last year.
The increase is large in the Northwest,
and there is a tendency to enlargement in
al. sections of the country.
In the acreage of cotton an increase of
per cent. is reported. There appears to be
a slight decline in the States of the Allan
tic coast and an increase west Of the Mis-
sissippi. State averages are: Virginia
80, North Carolina 99.5, South Carolina SO,
Georgia 9S.5, Florida 81, Alabama 100, Mis-
sissippi 1904, Louisiana lO2, Texas LOG,
Arkansas 1925, Tennessee 100. The condi-
ton of cotton is higher than in any year
since 1880, the average being 9S.9hand has
only been exceeded three times since 1870.
The best yield in that period was in 1882,
when the June condition was 80, a figure
that has been discounted six times since
1870. 1t is a good beginning but does not
insure a good crop. The State averages
(L..el;na 90 nnn.n;n 90 Elnrido QS Ala.